Institute Calendar
Spring 2017-2018
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
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4:20pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Saakian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ani Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:45pm
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Caltech Associates Northern California Panel Discussion: Startups and Breakups, A Panel on Entrepreneurship
Off Campus
with Shuki Bruck, Caltech's Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering, and Caltech alumni
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 6th, 2018
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Babapilavian Engagement
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 7th, 2018
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Life and Death by Impact: Drilling for Clues
Sean P. S. Gulick,
Research Professor Institute of Geophysics,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalytic Modification of Methane in Non-Conventional Media
Pedro J. Perez,
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry,
Research Center in Quimica Sostenible (CIQSO) Building Robert H. Grubbs, Campus of the Carmen,
University of Huelva, SPAIN,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
8:00am
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4:30pm
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American Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry, Virtual Symposium
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire
Sarah E. Reisman,
Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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American Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry, Virtual Symposium
Studies in Natural Product Total Synthesis
Phil S. Baran,
Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering ,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Optimal control, lattice gauge theories, and quantum annealing
Simone Montangero,
University of Ulm ,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Modeling the Physical Processes Underlying Chromosomal Organization and Dynamics
Andy Spakowitz,
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science ,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Marta Bryan,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"The First Steps in Vision: Mice and Humans"
Botond Roska MD PhD,
Director, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB),
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel,
Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Probing Binary Black Hole Environments in Hierarchical Triple Systems
Lisa Randall,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bayesian Pursuit of Truth: On an Influential and yet Underappreciated Solution to the Problem of the Priors
Hanti Lin,
Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for heavy new resonances decaying to heavy electroweak bosons and upgrade of the Barrel Muon Trigger of the CMS detector at the LHC
Michalis Bachtis,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Frictions in a Competitive Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis
Alessandro Lizzeri,
Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Node Deployment in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Source Coding Perspective
Hamid Jafarkhani,
Chancellor's Professor ,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,,
University of California, Irvine,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
8:00am
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4:30pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media
Louisa Avellar,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Young Gas-Giant Planets and their Brown Dwarf Cousins: From 1 Square Arcsecond to 30,000 Square Degrees
Mike Liu,
Univ of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrologic dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet
Vena Chu,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Strategies and methods for the synthesis of neuroactive disulfide-linked peptides
Jennifer L. Stockdill,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Wayne State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Social Learning Equilibria
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks
Galen Reeves,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Duke University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
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8:00am
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2:00pm
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8:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Avian Inspired Design"
David Lentink,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Thesis Defense
"Searching for the one: Engineering novel rhodopsins for neuroscience"
Claire Bedbrook,
PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks
Natalie Schaal,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biologically Fabricated Materials Composed of Engineered Biofilm Matrix Proteins
Neel Joshi,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering; Wyss Institute,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter
Charles Kane,
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics ,
University of Pennsylvania,